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Place dossier plate
SheetNY-DOBBS-FERRY-NY · Dobbs Ferry, NY 11,397 pop · income 96th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Dobbs Ferry
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Dobbs Ferry on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
La Homa · lowest
41,198
La Homa · lowest
41,198 median HH income
24.1% of the leader · rank #1
Brielle · near
167,754
Brielle · near
167,754 median HH income
98.1% of the leader · rank #2
Pylesville · near
167,755
Pylesville · near
167,755 median HH income
98.1% of the leader · rank #3
Dobbs Ferry · this city
167,927
Dobbs Ferry · this city
167,927 median HH income
98.2% of the leader · rank #4
Honcut · near
168,068
Honcut · near
168,068 median HH income
98.3% of the leader · rank #5
Severna Park · near
168,091
Severna Park · near
168,091 median HH income
98.3% of the leader · rank #6
Elwood · highest
170,987
Elwood · highest
170,987 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Dobbs Ferry on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 11,397.
Dobbs Ferry ranks in the 96th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
96th
percentile, household income
93rd
percentile, home value
78th
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Dobbs Ferry, NY
11,397 people live in Dobbs Ferry, New York - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $167,927 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.8%. Typical homes in Dobbs Ferry are valued around $719,300, and the median resident age is 40.2 years. 67.4% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 65.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 23 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Slowing), down 15% from five years earlier.
New York carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts New York at 107.9 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Above Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,579 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $285 across New York, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 69.4 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Dobbs Ferry's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from comparison shortlist to work and mobility to housing and income to schools and households to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Dobbs Ferry, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Dobbs Ferry?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
Within New York, the closest population matches are East Glenville (11,399 residents, $86,023 income); Suffern (11,395 residents, $100,737 income); Fulton (11,339 residents, $52,123 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are East Grand Rapids, MI (11,394 residents); Grosse Pointe Park, MI (11,394 residents); Spencer, IA (11,393 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
What does the journey to work look like in Dobbs Ferry?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 46.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
How far does income reach against housing in Dobbs Ferry?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the education layer cover for Dobbs Ferry?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 7 public schools within the city match. 67.4% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Population change
Is Dobbs Ferry growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +171 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 23 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
2020 estimate
11,474
2025 estimate
11,645
Period change
+1.5%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Household income A+
$167,927
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
67.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A
1.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living F
107.9 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Dobbs Ferry profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $167,927
Bachelor's+ share: 96/100 (A+) · 67.4%
Poverty rate: 87/100 (A) · 1.8%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Dobbs Ferry compare to other US cities?
Where Dobbs Ferry sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income96% higher than other cities
Home value93% pricier than other cities
Median rent78% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Dobbs Ferry against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to New York only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
New York-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Dobbs Ferry near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Dobbs Ferry ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Dobbs Ferry only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#123 of 1,205
90th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#156 of 1,202
87th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#912 of 1,246
26th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#122 of 1,254
90th percentile in New York
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within New York only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
96th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Dobbs Ferry's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$719,3007th percentilemore affordable than 7% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Dobbs Ferry's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,480 of 15,516
More affordable than 26% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,213 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.3×, Dobbs Ferry sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,480 of 15,516 and #2,213 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$167,927Dobbs Ferry, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Dobbs Ferry, NY median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Dobbs Ferry, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)67.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
11,397
Median Income
$167,927
Median Home Value
$719,300
Median Age
40.2
Poverty Rate
1.8%
Labor force participation
65.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
67.4%
Schools
Total Schools
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Dobbs Ferry's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
11,474 residents
2021
11,443 residents
2022
11,377 residents
2023
11,401 residents
2024
11,567 residents
2025
11,645 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
23
housing units authorized
Single-Family
8
detached homes
Multifamily
15
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
27
2
25
$9.2M
2020
18
3
15
$6.2M
2021
30
5
25
$10.4M
2022
26
6
20
$9.2M
2023
21
6
15
$7.5M
2024
23
8
15
$8.3M
Permit volume decreased 15% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
46.6%
Carpool
4.3%
Public Transit
17.2%
Walk
5.4%
Work from Home
22.8%
Other
3.7%
Based on 5,880 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
New York statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $285
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across New York at $285 (electricity about $130 , water and sewer about $65 ).
These are New York statewide averages, not a meter reading for Dobbs Ferry. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
New York's BEA cost-of-living index is 107.9 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Dobbs Ferry is $1,579/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to New York statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 69.4 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a New York statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Dobbs Ferry sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Dobbs Ferry compares to similar-size New York cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.